Mark 6:35-44

35Late in the afternoon his disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late.

36Send the crowds away so they can go to the nearby farms and villages and buy something to eat.”

37But Jesus said, “You feed them.” “With what?” they asked. “We’d have to work for months to earn enough money to buy food for all these people!”

38“How much bread do you have?” he asked. “Go and find out.” They came back and reported, “We have five loaves of bread and two fish.”

39Then Jesus told the disciples to have the people sit down in groups on the green grass.

40So they sat down in groups of fifty or a hundred.

41Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up toward heaven, and blessed them. Then, breaking the loaves into pieces, he kept giving the bread to the disciples so they could distribute it to the people. He also divided the fish for everyone to share.

42They all ate as much as they wanted,

43and afterward, the disciples picked up twelve baskets of leftover bread and fish.

44A total of 5,000 men and their families were fed.